Anthropology
Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Digital Humanities
Applications are welcome from scholars who bring to research and teaching the theoretical, methodological, creative, and/or technical practice of digital technologies. We welcome applications from scholars who engage with emerging digital cultures from a humanities perspective. The Fellow must be prepared to teach courses that reflect expertise in the digital humanities as well as in another substantive field.
J.S. Lee Memorial Fellowship Programme for Chinese Art
The J. S. Lee Memorial Fellowship Programme supports curators, museum professionals and Chinese art history research academics taking part in fellowships in the Programme Participating Institutions. In order to realize the goal of promoting international exchange and cooperation in the field of Chinese art, the Programme requires applicants to be based in museums or institutions in places outside their habitual residence. The fellowship aims to contribute to the professional enhancement of curators and academics in Chinese art through attachments and fellowships at museums and art institutions in China and overseas.
Andrew W. Mellon "Cultures of Conservation" Fellowship
This fellowship is designed to help bridge the gap between the ways objects are studied by conservators and the ways they are approached by academics in the human sciences. These fellowships are available to individuals with a PhD or equivalent professional experience, and each of the appointed humanities-trained fellows will join a conservation team at a New York-area museum and work together on a joint project. The participating institutions are The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The American Museum of Natural History, Anthropology Division, and The Museum of Modern Art.
Program on U.S.- Japan Relations Postdoctoral Fellowship
We seek applications from outstanding scholars in the social sciences who are conducting research that illuminates Japan's relations with the rest of the world in the broadest sense. Scholars may examine domestic issues that bear on Japan's external relations or problems that it shares with other countries. Post-doctoral Fellows will be expected to contribute to the teaching program at Harvard, normally by offering one undergraduate course during the fall or spring semester of the academic year.
Native American Awards Program-Community Scholars
The Native American Awards Community Scholar falls within the Native American Awards Program which supports Native Americans, who are formally or informally affiliated with a Native American community or tribe. Scholars must visit the Institution to undertake projects on a Native American subject and utilize the Native American resources of the Institution. One of the goals of the program is for the Community Scholars to take the knowledge they gain through their research and share it with their community.
The Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship
The Fellowship is for three months and is for research in ‘Contemporary History’ – which covers a broad field including political activism, journalism, historiography, historical anthropology and research addressing cultural, social and economic change in South Asia in recent decades. The CWIT Fellow has a private office in the Institute, with all the usual research facilities, and is a member of IASH’s lively research community. S/He is expected to play a full part in the activities of the Institute, as well as working closely with colleagues in the Centre for South Asian Studies, and to give one seminar at IASH and one at the Centre on his/her current research work during their tenure.
Andrew W. Mellon "Cultures of Conservation" Fellowship
This fellowship is designed to help bridge the gap between the ways objects are studied by conservators and the ways they are approached by academics in the human sciences. These fellowships are available to individuals with a PhD or equivalent professional experience, and each of the appointed humanities-trained fellows will join a conservation team at a New York-area museum and work together on a joint project. The participating institutions are The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The American Museum of Natural History, Anthropology Division, and The Museum of Modern Art.
Rutgers University: Center for Cultural Analysis Postdoctoral Fellowship
Topic varies year to year.
ARCE Funded Fellowships: Funded by The United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs
The ECA also funds the ARCE Scholar-in-Residence Program for senior scholars, which was established to promote collegiality at the Center. Post-doctoral scholars are invited to indicate their interest in serving as the ARCE Scholar-in-Residence on the fellowship application. In addition to conducting his/her research, s/he agrees to advise junior scholars and organize a workshop, conference, or other scholarly activity in consultation with the Director.
Smithsonian Mpala Postdoctoral Fellowship
The purpose of the Mpala Postdoctoral Fellowship is to promote the study biology, anthropology, geology, hydrology, material science, social science, soil science or related areas. Projects must be tenable in residence at Smithsonian Institution facilities and Mpala Research Centre. The proposed research topic must be in an area of science or culture supported by Smithsonian that is also appropriate to Mpala.
Countway Fellowships
The Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine will offer annual fellowships to support research in the history of medicine. The mission of the Boston Medical Library (BML) is “to be a Library for the dissemination of medical knowledge, the promotion of medical education and scholarship, and the preservation and celebration of medical history, and thereby to advance the quality of health and healthcare of the people.” The Countway Library serves Harvard’s academic needs and the constituency of the BML which includes the other three medical schools in Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Medical Society, and practicing physicians.
Center for Jewish History NEH Fellowship for Senior Scholars
The awards support original research at CJH in the humanities, including but not limited to Jewish studies, Russian and East European studies, American studies and Germanic studies, as well as musicology, linguistics, anthropology, sociology and history. Fellows are expected to conduct original research at the Center, deliver at least one lecture based on the research conducted, and actively participate in the scholarly community at the Center. The fellow must acknowledge the Center and NEH in all publications resulting from research completed during the fellowship, and submit a report upon completion of the fellowship describing the experience.
Yiddish Book Center Fellowship Program
Fellows coordinate the scanning of thousands of Yiddish volumes in partnership with the National Library of Israel and support the development of new technology that enables scholars to search millions of pages of Yiddish literature online. Fellows are integral to the Center’s expanding efforts to facilitate the translation of the 98% of Yiddish titles currently inaccessible to English readers. Fellows work with the project director to conduct and record hour-long videotaped interviews with children and grandchildren of Yiddish writers, artists, and activists.
Institute for Humanities Research Fellows Program
The IHR ASU Fellows program provides funding for either individual tenured or tenure-track faculty or research teams to engage in a year of research related to the annual theme, share their research with the academic community , and produce a strong application for a large external grant. Faculty selected for the ASU Fellows Program are expected to collaborate and coordinate activities during the academic year, generate scholarly publications and/or presentations, and produce strong applications for external funding significantly larger than that provided by this award. Successful proposals for the Fellows program will entail interdisciplinary collaborative scholarship from a humanistic perspective that seeks to produce transdisciplinary results, in keeping with the IHR mission.
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Harvard University
Topics may vary
Newberry Research Library Long-Term Residential Fellowships
The Newberry’s Core Collection concerns the civilizations of Western Europe and the Americas from the late Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Intended to support individual scholarly research and promote serious intellectual exchange. Expected to engage in active participation in the Newberry’s scholarly activities, including fellows’ seminars and a weekly colloquium.
Russell Sage Foundation's Visiting Scholars Program
The Russell Sage Foundation’s Visiting Scholar Program provides a unique opportunity for select scholars in the social, economic and behavioral sciences to pursue their research and writing while in residence at the Foundation’s New York headquarters. Research carried out by Visiting Scholars constitutes an important part of the Foundation’s ongoing effort to analyze and understand the complex and shifting nature of social and economic life in the United States. Scholars are provided with an office at the Foundation, research assistance, computer and library facilities.
Visiting Scholar Program
Visiting Scholars enjoy the luxury of time away from heavy teaching loads and other responsibilities so that they can focus almost exclusively on their research and writing. Visiting Scholars fully participate in the intellectual life of the Center and the University. During their time at BYU they give a public talk on their research and lead a seminar session with interested faculty and students. They also make themselves available for a small number of guest presentations to BYU classes on their research.
Newberry Research Library Short-Term Residential Fellowships
Fellowships at the Newberry provide support for researchers who wish to use our collection. The Newberry’s Core Collection concerns the civilizations of Western Europe and the Americas from the late Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Collection strengths include: American History and Culture; American Indian and Indigenous Studies; Chicago and the Midwest; Genealogy and Local History; History of the Book; Manuscripts and Archives; Maps, Travel, and Exploration; Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies; Music; and Religion.
Documenting Endangered Languages
NSF and NEF supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages. This effort aims to exploit advances in information technology to build computational infrastructure for endangered language research. The program supports projects that contribute to data management and archiving, and to the development of the next generation of researchers.
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship
The college offers opportunities for faculty development through intimate interdisciplinary exchange and innovative pedagogy and provides an ideal setting for cultivating the creative energies of young scholars. We seek scholars interested in the study of cultural practices surrounding the care, disposal, and memorialization of the dead. Candidates should have broad historical and interdisciplinary interests.